[Rise of the Eldrazi] Set Discussion Thread

[MattH]

Considering since the card is currently useless and sells for $5+ online, I think a lot of people think the Eye is worth picking up.

as for the preview: the gimmick they used to show it off was MaRo 100%. I liked it.

did you notice the kor firewalker in the ad on the right?

[forceofwillhk]

About Food Chain, it looks strictly worse than Myojin of Seeing Winds

I will definitely include this as a 1 of in my food chain deck
Myojin, most of time, draws 4 cards, 2 lands + food chain + myojin itself
this draws 4 too
and it's a 2 turn clock
I think 1 of will be a nice alternative win con for my food chain

[Atwa]

With Painter in play, this guy's green as is Painter. Does that make it better than Progenitus? I'm not going to make that call, just sayin'.

With Painter in play, wouldn't you just rather activate a Grindstone and win now?

[forceofwillhk]

With Painter in play, wouldn't you just rather activate a Grindstone and win now?

Exactly...
First turn show and tell this will be cool
But probably Iona will be much better choice
At first turn, this may well get sworded or pathed, while Iona is untouchable

[sunshine]

Urzatron back in M11... Calling it now.

Edit: Ghostflire was already mentioned but I wouldn't be surprised to see the future shifted card reprinted here.

[majikal]

This guy is going straight into my EDH. Holy shit.

[forceofwillhk]

Urzatron back in M11... Calling it now.

Edit: Ghostflire was already mentioned but I wouldn't be surprised to see the future shifted card reprinted here.

That guy spoiled Annaihilator X keyword along with Level Up X keyword way before but his post got deleted from MTG Salvation.
Now that this spoil proves that guy is right.
So I do think Eldrazi Temple and Ghostfire are perfectly legit in the new set.

[android]

With Painter in play, wouldn't you just rather activate a Grindstone and win now?

I wasn't saying it was good. I was responding to someone who mentioned it didn't work with NO.

[Barook]

Level Up X keyword

And what function has this keyword?

[Pltnmngl]

I bought 6 Eye of Ugin's when I saw the first card spoiled. I plan on riding the hype wave and profiting off of them by the time this set is released.

Also, I plan on drafting the hell out of this set. When the draft season ends, I'll use my cards and make a crappy Eldrazi deck. lol...

[forceofwillhk]

And what function has this keyword?

that's what the guy spoiled in his orginal post, later got deleted by MTG salvation

Hey guys, I've never posted spoiler info before, and I have come into possession of some really cool stuff. Before I attempt to post it, I'd like to ask a couple questions.

1. Is it ever too early to spoil cards for a set? The ones I've got are from Rise of the Eldrazi.

2. What's the best/easiest way to scan foil sheets? My source is a foil sheet. I'd rather get you guys the scans but if I can't I'll spend my lunch typing out the cards.

Thanks and as a show of good faith, I will give you a little bit of info:

Annihilate X: When this creature attacks, the defending player sacrifices X permanents.

Level up X(pay X, put a level counter on this creature. Level up only as a sorcery) ...Creature has different (progressively better) abilities as it levels up.

And a whole card for you:

Eldrazi Temple
Tap: 1 colorless to your pool
Tap: 2 colorless to your pool. Spend this only on colorless Eldrazi spells or permanents.

[Aggro_zombies]

There are clearly more than six Eldrazi/colorless cards in the set. Colorless non-artifacts seem to be placed before white cards in the set list, and this guy is just before the middle of the alphabet with the collector number 6. We're probably looking at around 15 or so colorless non-artifacts, then.

This guy is a huge beating in EDH. Only token decks will be able to shrug off that kind of destructive power, and it's pretty easy to race him into play given the artifact acceleration available. Having (possibly) several alternatives to Karn is kind of nice, actually, although that's an expensive deck to build with only limited ways to build it.

[android]

What if...

Affinity II
2
Eldrazi Enchantment
All Eldrazi spells you play cost 2 less

I guess I would have to eat my shorts.

[godryk]

Just rumours, so they can be kind of fake (not really fake as they're published as "rumours").
http://www.mtgmintcard.com/static_ri...zi_spoiler.php
(Scroll down)

[Mark Sun]

Just rumours, so they can be kind of fake (not really fake as they're published as "rumours").
http://www.mtgmintcard.com/static_ri...zi_spoiler.php
(Scroll down)

Those were already confirmed to be mockups somewhere, iirc.

Six spoiled cards are supposed to come out Monday...

[DownSyndromeKarl]

Who is that in the seventh image down? he appears on the cover of one of the boosters for this set, but who is he? any word?

EDIT: I clicked on the properties, and the photo is labeled "Gideon"....soo...who's Gideon?

[Wargoos]

What astonishes me the most is the great artwork of this set.
I have the impression that it's gonna be the best looking set so far and I totally dig beautiful fantasy artworks.
Lofty blonde angels with golden hair, big boobs and apparantly no money to buy more cloth than a white diaphragmatic scarf.
Huuuuuuuuuge big walking Flying Spaghetti Monsters and their brothers in human form but with tentacles everywhere in the lower body which have also more arms than Vishnu etc.

Also anyone already seen the playmats?



Both look great, hope my local store will have some in stock.
Very hyped about this set so far.
Can't wait for new spoiled stuff.

[Aggro_zombies]

Who is that in the seventh image down? he appears on the cover of one of the boosters for this set, but who is he? any word?

EDIT: I clicked on the properties, and the photo is labeled "Gideon"....soo...who's Gideon?

Gideon is apparently a white-aligned planeswalker from the Chandra novel, according to what people have said on Salvation.

[DownSyndromeKarl]

Gideon is apparently a white-aligned planeswalker from the Chandra novel, according to what people have said on Salvation.

Ah. makes sense. I saw the image on the booster packs the other day and was discussing it with a friend, I described the guy as "looking like he was from Bant. A very proper knight"

[jrsthethird]

So not only are there about 12-15 colorless Eldrazi spells with no colored mana in their mana costs, one of the guys in the link above costs 8UUU but is a colorless Eldrazi, so there's no telling how many Ghostfire-like colorless Eldrazis there will be.